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title: Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid that this might be only another device by which the Fairy of the Desert was trying to deceive him. Who acts: King, this, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 24

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Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid that this might be only another device by which the Fairy of the Desert was trying to deceive him.

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**Who acts:** King, this, Fairy · **What happens:** not wish, escape, be, try, deceive · **To what, where:** device, King

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, this, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:7:24
# text = Not because he did not wish very much to escape, but he was afraid that this might be only another device by which the Fairy of the Desert was trying to deceive him.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | might | this | another device |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | past · progressive | the Fairy of the Desert |  |  |  |  | by another device | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Desert *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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